PENNSVILLE TWP. —
A local man faces attempted murder and other charges after allegedly
firing a gun during a fight Thursday in the Penn Beach section of the
township, police said.

Shymeke T. Shorter, 27, of South Broadway, Pennsville, was arrested in the early-morning incident, according to authorities.

Pennsville
Police Lt. Allen Cummings said officers were called to Cornell Road
near Riviera Drive at 2:27 a.m. Thursday for the report of a fight and a
shot fired.

When they arrived they spoke to a witness who said
Shorter and an unidentified male from Bear, Del., had been engaged in an
argument.

Police said during the altercation which occurred out in the street, Shorter allegedly displayed a handgun and fired one shot.

Officers from the Pennsville Police Department were
directed to two different houses on Cornell Road by a witnesses who was
acquainted with the two men and police found Shorter in one house and
the male victim in another.

Shorter was taken into custody without incident, police said.

Patrol
officers searched the area and found the handgun allegedly fired by
Shorter in a backyard. The gun being held as evidence, Cummings said.

Police
did not say what sparked the altercation between Shorter and the other
male who was visiting Pennsville at the time of the fight.

Along
with attempted murder, Shorter was charged with possession of a weapon
and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, according to
authorities.

The man Shorter allegedly tried to shoot was not injured, according to police.

“Due
to the quick response by Pennsville Police, an arrest was made
immediately and a weapon was removed from the streets of the township,”
Cummings said.

Shorter was committed to the Salem County Correctional Facility, Mannington Township, in lieu of $150,000 full cash bail.